Five Months for the Little Boy!

Grayson, at five months you:

-Sleep through the night from about 8 pm to 8 am
-You wake up happy and talk to yourself until we come to get you
-Nap 2 to 3 times a day; usually 2 1.5 hour naps in the am and pm, and then a 45 min one after dinner (this is AMAZING for your mother)
-Love your baths, which dad usually gives you before night-night time
-Do great in your car seat and will fall asleep in public
-Love Hank and if mommy and daddy would allow it would let him kiss you all day
-Still enjoy your activity mat, but also like spending time in your Exersaucer
-Spend a lot of time with Sophie the Giraffe and anything else you can put in your mouth
-After rejecting the swing at an early age, you spend some fun times in it now
-LOVE sitting in your bouncy chair while watching Baby Einstein (don't worry, I'm not too bad of a mommy, this is not an everyday occurrence)
-Don't seem to favor mommy or daddy- you like us both
- And for that matter, will let anyone hold you anytime. I would LOVE if this continued, because you just about make everyone's day!
-You are ALWAYS smiling, which makes me feel like I am doing something right, even though I know it probably is just your personality and has nothing to do with me.
-But in public, this smiling makes everyone you come across feel like a million dollars
- You are still a snuggler and will sit in our laps any old time. During your last feed at night we sometimes rock you to sleep because it is such a sweet time.
- Now roll from your back to your front and are DYING to sit up on your own
-No teeth yet
- Got your first cold a couple of weeks ago :(
-Are SO handsome and everyone thinks you look like your daddy. Except my mom and Betsy think you look a little like me.
-You're a great shopper in your stroller until you get hungry. There is just so much to look at!
- Are betrothed to Ellis
-Have started grabbing my hair
- Absolutely love the outdoors
- Are still not a fussy baby
-Weigh a little over 14 lbs. (still solidly in the 10th percentile for height and weight)
-Are quite the talker and would MUCH rather talk in the morning than eat anything
-Giggle when daddy tickles you
- We call you Gray-Gray, Little Boy and G Baby
-Just make life better for mommy and daddy- we are having a blast loving you!

And now, about feeding.

We should have expected resistance when we began solids, after all, eating is not Grayson's spiritual gift. There are children who gobble them down no problem the first time, and then there are kids like Grayson.

For about the first 10 times we tried cereal he thought it was a great game of "colorful stick goes in my mouth, then I spit the stuff out that was on the stick." Then, he FINALLY decided to swallow one day. What an accomplishment in the Dickerson household. Of course when the doc told us it was time to start this endeavor we were in the middle of the house remodel so that made things crazier. Grayson now eats solids twice and day and enjoys banana and sweet potatoes that I make for him.

Becoming more interested in solids

Exersaucer

First time in an Aggie outfit

Figuring out this spoon thing

We can't wait to share him with some of you during our travels this summer!